FRANKFURT, Germany - Can performing Beethoven symphonies together help employees team up on projects at work, too? Some companies in Germany and Asia seem to think so.
Director Feng Xiaogang - who started the concept of Chinese New Year hits - is celebrating a new triumph. His latest film Youth, a bittersweet tale that chronicles the lives of several members of a Chinese military art troupe from the 1970s to the 1990s, has raked in 480 million yuan ($73 million) since being released on Dec 15, topping the country's box-office charts.
Wearing a Zhongshan suit, the modern Chinese tunic, actor Liu Jin looks directly into the camera and says something inspiring for a little girl named Sihan.
David J. Fraher, president and CEO of Arts Midwest, a nonprofit arts organization from the United States, arrived at the Guangzhou Opera House on a recent morning.
The China Association of Performing Arts Committee has launched a branch that will be dedicated to traditional Chinese opera.
In a spacious hall filled with influential scholars and NGO representatives, five young entrepreneurs were invited onstage to share their ideas of entrepreneurship and innovation and offer their solutions for social issues.
When you work hard preparing for a test, but still ending up failing, it can be upsetting. But Huang Hongchuan turned one such unpleasant experience into a promising business idea.
The World Philanthropy Forum held in Beijing in late November invited entrepreneurs from around the world to discuss issues regarding youth development and its social impact. Successful entrepreneurs from three industry sectors shared their insights into what skills would be important for the younger generation to develop in the future.
Young entrepreneurs from China and Sweden had an opportunity to show their talent for technological innovation at the first Nobel Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition this month.
"Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends," said Denis Morisset, a professor in international luxury brand management at ESSEC Business School, quoting Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, at a fair for French luxury education in Beijing on Dec 9.
The Xiamen-born pianist Zhang Shengliang, better known by his stage name Niu Niu, a derivation of his childhood nickname Niuniu, first showed his music talent at the age of 3 by playing a piece from John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course, without anyone teaching him. And he held his first solo recital a few weeks after his sixth birthday, with a program including a Mozart piano sonata and a Chopin etude.
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